What to do about copyright infringement?

[ephemral]

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=1057844

This person's catalog is filled with violations.
The first one I noticed was all the art taken from Ghost of dawn. I used to be a member of her Yahoo group for her site about anime kitties. The next was a picture of Rei from breath of fire 3 that I remembered seeing on deviantart.
Luckily I have Ghost's email.
I'll be in contact with them. I just wonder how I can let IMVU know about this. Is flagging their submission as inappropriate
going to do any good? Do they have a field to say why I feel it's inappropriate? Anyone with experience on this?



http://www.anycities.com/user1/ghostofdawn/

[crustybread5]

Usually if you contact the person who's violating, nicely if they remove the images causing the infringement and they do, no worries. Other wise they leave them; contact IMVU .

[ephemral]

I'm not quite as nice as that when it comes to art theft. Ghost let me know they were infact her kitties
so I did my duties and tagged them. :dragon: To become a dev you have to sign an agreement which this person
violated. Normaly I would ask the person first, but I've seen Ghost's art get stolen before. They're usualy lame noobs that
think they can claim all rights to her art.

[BlackwidowX745]

thats really rude that people do this stuff they should really have legal action taken against them because they are breaking laws (depending on where you live i guess though)

[cybercat]

Unfortunatley just about all artwork you see in stickers with a few exceptions is stolen  artwork.  It would be a full time job heck several full time jobs, to go thru every thing and point it out.. and even then I think the real owner of the item  has to email or contact IMVU before they'll take down stuff.

I know I've seen art by a number of other furry artists splashed all over the place. I've contacted a few of them like Xian Jag, Megan Giles and others I know personally.. but I haven't checked back lately to see if the items were taken down. The rest like all the golden wolf stuff..  there's just too much there to deal with and I don't have the desire to make enemies.. at least much of the stolen art work still has the artist's watermark on there so it ends up being 'free advertising' to a small extent.


imperfect solutions for imperfect world. =(

[ephemral]

I just remembered the name of the deviantart picture that was stolen. It was Rei for danimation.
I could search DA for that user and find the exact deviation.

Just looked. That person wiped their page. Oh well, no trace backs for me then.